CBC News' Nil Köksal reports on the continuing, sad, and politically necessary search in Cyprus for the graves of the many Cypriots killed in that island's recent history of ethnic war.

There were 84 skeletons, all in one place ( Read more... )

• Anthropology.net reports on the recent discovery in China of two skulls a hundred thousand years old, possible remnants of a hitherto-unknown hominid species.
• blogTO reports on the boom in the Toronto tech community.
• Language Log breaks down the linguistics, specifically word lengths, of audiobooks.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money reports on the difficult ( Read more... )

News of the remarkable density of planets, including potentially Earth-like planets, in the system of nearby ultra-cool dwarf TRAPPIST-1 spread across the blogosphere. This NASA JPL illustration comparing the TRAPPIST-1 worlds with the four rocky worlds of our own solar system, underlining the potential similarity of some worlds to the worlds we ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes that the redevelopment of Toronto's Port Lands is continuing.
• Crooked Timber argues that climate denialism exposes the socially constructed nature of property rights.
• D-Brief notes the reburial of Kennewick Man.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes there is no sign of a second planet around Proxima Centauri.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at life in ( Read more... )

Anthropologist Nadia El-Shaarawi, writing at Savage Minds, describes her experiences interviewing Middle Eastern candidates for refugee status and frames them in the context of the anti-refugee sentiment and exclusionary state structures.

As a volunteer legal advocate working with refugees who were seeking resettlement, I learned to ask detailed ( Read more... )

• The Crux makes the case that, for too long, modern homo sapiens have underestimated the genius of the Neanderthals.
• D-Brief looks at the efforts of some scientists to develop brewing standards for the Moon.
• Language Hat examines different languages' writing standards--Turkish, Greek, Armenian--in the late Ottoman Empire.
• Language Log deconstructs ( Read more... )

• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly calls on journalists to stand up to Trump.
• Centauri Dreams looks at exocomets.
• Language Log shares an ad from the 1920s using the most vintage language imaginable.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money talks about globalization as a mechanism for concentrating wealth at the top of the elite.
• The LRB Blog talks about the ghosts of ( Read more... )

• Anthropology.net describes an effort to digitize tapes recording Navajo oral history.
• Centauri Dreams remembers Vera Rubin.
• D-Brief looks
  
• Dangerous Minds shares a 1984 TV clip featuring George Michael and Morrissey talking about Joy Division.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting a gas giant exoplanet might be indicated by a protoplanetary ( Read more... )

• Centauri Dreams looks at the advanced microelectronics that might last a space probe the two decades it would take to get to Proxima Centauri.
• Dangerous Minds links to a 1980 filmed concert performance by Queen.
• The Dragon's Gaze reports on the discovery of potassium in the atmosphere of WASP-17b.
• Language Hat looks at the Carmina of Optatianus, an ( Read more... )

• Apostrophen's 'Nathan Smith writes about what he has learned from his huskie.
• Bad Astronomy shares some gorgeous Cassini images of Saturn's polar hexagon.
• Centauri Dreams looks at L2 Puppis, a red giant star that our own sun will come to resemble.
• D-Brief notes climate change is starting to hit eastern Antarctica, the more stable region of the ( Read more... )